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  1. import re
  2. text = 'some A.B.B.R.E.V. here.'
  3. pattern = re.compile(r'\b(?:[a-z]\.){2,}', re.I)
  4. text = pattern.sub(lambda m: m.group().replace('.',''), text)
  5. print(text)
Success #stdin #stdout 0.03s 9760KB
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some ABBREV here.
https://ideone.com/7DYGLf
language:
Python 3 (python  3.12)
created:
2 years ago
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